The author outlines European and German activities and initiatives in the European Year of Languages. In order to bring these initiatives to fruition, it will be necessary to establish the usefulness of language knowledge in the minds of all European citizens. The author’s argument in favour of familiarity with more than one foreign language as a culturally enriching experience culminates in the promise that „monolinguality is curable“.
Dr. Mike Sandbothe ist Medienphilosoph und vertritt zur Zeit eine Professur für Medienpädagogik an der Universität Bielefeld. Im Gespräch mit Svenja Möller und Richard Stang vom DIE spricht er über den scheinbaren Gegensatz zwischen virtuellen und realen Welten, über ethische Fragen und Aufgaben von Bildung und Weiterbildung.
Online communities have been praised as utopian realms of free, equal and unrestricted communication by some; others have condemned them as anti-social pseudo-communities. Both attitudes, however, focus on the technical framework and do not take the actual quality of the interaction into account. The author describes types of interaction in virtual communities in general, then looks at four types of communities dedicated specifically to learning, and explores their potential.
The author comments on his essay’s title which should refer to a „human being“ rather than to a „migrant“. With examples drawn from literature, theatre and real life he underpins his theory of an increasing malfunction of language as a means of communication. Finally, he reflects on cultural identity and a (German) concept of integration into a target culture.
English is firmly established as a lingua franca, yet in order to preserve cultural variety the mastering of several languages will continue to be indispensable. The author demonstrates in which ways learners profit from knowledge of and comparison between various languages and argues in favour of a common aim of „English plus multilinguality“.
Prof. Dr. Harald Weinrich ist einer der profiliertesten deutschen Sprachwissenschaftler. Er ist Mitbegründer der Universität Bielefeld, begründete in München das Fach „Deutsch als Fremdsprache“ und lehrt als erster deutscher Wissenschaftler am Collège de France. Gegenüber DIE-Mitarbeiter Gerd von der Handt plädiert Weinrich für die Rehabilitierung des Begriffs „Sprachkultur“, für die lingua-franca-Englisch, sofern sie Mehrsprachigkeit nicht erdrückt und fordert von den Deutschen, selbst mehrsp…
Net based communication is changing business and private life and education and learning of adults as well. Important condition for using new chances by new information and communication technologies for learning processes is media competence. – The authors describe components of media competence as a pedagogical target including technical competence, communicative competence and the competence of coping with the information flood. Problems are restrictions of participation on net based communi…
The article describes the project „Deutscher Bildungsserver“ which is working as a meta-server to supply users with an information system of relevant data in the field of education, adult and further education. The internet is offering big quantities of information and the chance to build up complex documents. Both make it more difficult to select and evaluate information. The „Deutscher Bildungsserver“ incorporates information critically bringing it into an order making it easier for users to …
Working biographies today do not last for life. The author describes the concepts of labour entrepreneur as a new type of labour which means that employees put their competence to the market. Characteristics of the labour entrepreneur is responsibilityfor the organisation and the marketing of one’s own competence. As a consequence in adult education didactical and methodical concepts for the interpretation and self-reflection of one’s own biography have to be developed.
Alfred Grosser ist Soziologe, Politikwissenschaftler, Publizist und politischer Kolumnist. 1933 emigrierte er nach Frankreich. Lange Jahre war er Professor am Institut d’études politique in Paris und erhielt für seine Mittlerrolle zwischen Franzosen und Deutschen, Gläubigen und Ungläubigen diverse Auszeichnungen, so auch den Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels. Alfred Grosser diskutiert mit Klaus Meisel über die Zukunft von Bildung und Lernen, Politik und politischer Bildung in der Wissensg…
